Blockchain tech across Q4 2021
• October, November & December of 2021
• Technology and startup news headlines
• Quick reference for time-poor readers
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The fourth quarter 2021 collection is drawn from
Startup News Asia’s daily updates.
October 2021 | November 2021 | December 2021
October 2021 headlines
Deloitte 2021 Global Blockchain Survey (pdf)
- ICYMI: Visa looking at creating universal payment channel for global transfers of digital currencies, connecting different blockchains to manage stablecoin and CBDC transfers
- Australia: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology ranked no.2 globally by CoinDesk for blockchain-related courses, research, student clubs and more
- Philippines: Axie Infinity blockchain-based play-to-earn gaming firm to launch a decentralized exchange, making it easier to move tokens off the platform to trade them
- A brief look back at the recent world-first Crypto-Fashion Week
- The Verge takes a dive into defining ‘the metaverse’: “One part definition, one part aspiration, one part hype…”
- A look at Taiwan’s Blockchain Ecosystem Map for H1 2021, providing a snapshot of the companies and communities in the industry
- China’s Binance cryptocurrency exchange launches $1BN accelerator fund in bid to boost adoption of Binance Smart Chain blockchain platform
Inthanon-LionRock – blockchain & digital currency (pdf)
- China’s Asia Digital Bank partners Bianjie blockchain tech provider to build out new digital infrastructure to bridge gap between centralised and decentralised finance
- ICYMI: Playboy to release series of 11,953 unique 3D NFTs called Playboy Rabbitars
- Vietnam: Sipher raises $6.8M with PC-based blockchain game, looking to add NFTs and decentralized finance components
- The Philippines’ Commission on Elections recently ran trials of blockchain-based voting for residents and overseas workers in attempt to address low voter turnout
- Asia’s tech news, issue 098: Vietnam & blockchain gaming, Huawei & EVs, Philippines voting tech, Australia & Bitcoin mining…
- Tokenized music royalties: “Of the $40BN in annual revenue earned by the music industry, only 12% is actually paid out to artists..”
- South Korea: An overview of the country’s metaverse developments, following the government’s launch of K-Metaverse Alliance now boasting over 200 company members
India: BollyCoin NFT marketplace
- A brief look at use cases around ‘enterprise NFTs’ for India’s blockchain firms
- Nepal: An overview of the recent ICT Startup & Innovation Fest 2021 and the tech firms and startups that participated, working in blockchain, agri-tech, IoT and more
- ICYMI: “Dolce & Gabbana’s NFT Experiment Is A Million-Dollar Success Story”
- India: Chingari short-video platform to launch its own crypto token, aiming for the $GARI token to be tradeable on cryptocurrency exchanges
- India: “Blockchain…will also attract billions of dollars of investments…However, a regulatory grey zone around cryptocurrency is certainly blocking our opportunities…”
- India: Bollywood actor Salman Khan joins Amitabh Bachchan on NFT bandwagon in selling digital assets as Non Fungible Tokens
- Asia’s tech news, issue 089: Myanmar agri-tech, China’s 5G, blockchain in Taiwan, IoT & COVID in Singapore…
- ICYMI: Genopets raises $8.3M with NFT-driven ‘move-to-earn’ game where players are rewarded for physical steps they take in real life, pulling data from phones and wearable devices
- Asia’s tech news, issue 093: HK fintech, Singapore VC, Vietnam e-commerce, blockchain gaming, Apple & surveillance…
- India: Biconomy blockchain-based transaction platform adds 12K new token holders via token listing, generating $11.5M
Singapore Blockchain Landscape (pdf)
November 2021 headlines
Cool Points Club / Re-imagining climate action with blockchain
- ICYMI: Fox media giant to double down on investments in blockchain by adding more NFTs and digital collectibles for shows and franchises
- ICYMI: Reddit co-founder to partner Solana Foundation to invest $100M in building social media projects on the Solana blockchain
- Why publishers should start experimenting with blockchain: A snapshot of insights from the recent ‘Exploring Blockchain’s Potential to Transform Media’ report
- So, what exactly is Web3, and what is it made of?
- Avocado Guild blockchain-based play-to-earn firm raises $18M Series A in part via Animoca Brands, with 7K-member scholarship program mainly primarily in the Philippines and Indonesia
- Online now: DappRadar Blockchain Behavior Report: ‘Interest in the metaverse and play-to-earn booming in Asia’
- Financial Times takes a look at the economics of the play-to-earn space: “They could have 50BN [users] but if the growth line is flat then income is not being generated”
- ICYMI: Quentin Tarantino to offer 7 uncut scenes from Pulp Fiction as NFTs for auction on OpenSea, delivered using privacy-focused Secret Network blockchain ecosystem
McKinsey & Co: The State of Fashion in 2022 (pdf)
- India: FreeTON DeFi Alliance blockchain ecosystem partners Kerala Blockchain Academy and Blockchain Centre India for Next Top TON Startup Hackathon – entries close Dec 6th
- Taiwan: A brief look at day 2 of the recent 2021 US Taiwan High-Tech Forum, touching on blockchain’s many use cases
- Sri Lanka Blockchain Summit set for November 19-30, looking at all things DLT and cryptocurrency related
- Singapore leg of World Blockchain Summit set for February 24-25 2022, bringing together all things crypto, defi and NFT
- Asia’s tech scene: Taipei Startup Festival, upcoming Singapore blockchain summit, Entrepreneur First’s Web3 platform, Korean blockchain gaming & in-game crypto, Pakistan’s startup scene…
- Taiwan’s DeCloak and TuringCert take 2nd and 3rd place wins in Draper Accelerator’s Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship Program Demo Day
- China’s Binance Smart Chain invests in Project Galaxy, blockchain platform focusing on verified credentials to prevent false identities and qualifications in education and employment
Samsung 837X Metaverse Project
- Blockchain Association Singapore and China’s AntChain ink MOUs around collaboration, blockchain adoption and promotion in Singapore, China and across ASEAN
- Asia’s tech news, issue 110: Blockchain in India, Baidu’s metaverse moves, Bangladesh’s startups, entrepreneur wellness in Australia, crypto in Thailand…
- Hong Kong’s Animoca Brands NFT and blockchain firm partners K-Pop talent agency to issue NFTs based on songs, albums, portraits and avatars
- South Korea: Wemade blockchain gaming firm hits market capitalization of $5BN since launch of MIR4, crypto-earning massively-multiplayer online role-playing game
- ICYMI: Entrepreneur First organisation launches Entrepreneur First Web3, a blockchain-based company-building platform aiming to attract and aid new founders in the web3 space
- ICYMI: A look at Centaurify, music-tech using NFTs and blockchain to help artists monetize the ticket resale market whilst eliminating ticket fraud
- Australia: NSW gov’t partners Microsoft and others to focus on apartment building defects using blockchain and AI to secure and record provenance details
Islands of Cool / Climate change, blockchain & NFTs
December 2021 headlines
Islands of Cool / Climate change, blockchain & NFTs
- A quick overview of the recent Blockchain World Abu Dhabi event which brought together crypto and blockchain enthusiasts from over 100 countries
- Blockchain in SEA, 2021 in review: “As of October 4, blockchain-based gaming firms raised a total of USD 1,985 million, up 4,626% from 2020’s USD 42 million…”
- Sri Lanka: Tracified blockchain firm rolls out solution for 10K farmers who export to the EU, providing transparency on food origin, processing dates and techniques, and more
- Indonesia: Binance blockchain and crypto infrastructure firm inks JV with consortium led by MDI Ventures for new Indonesia-based digital asset exchange
- India: Telangana Blockchain District partners Lumos Labs to launch India Blockchain Accelerator, a 4-month program for early-stage startups and concept development
- Luxury fashion in the metaverse: “Welcome to the new world of luxury, where avatars wear Burberry ‘skins’ and carry Gucci handbags that are not leather totes but non-fungible tokens.”
- Taiwan: An intro and 101 guide to XY Finance, cross-chain cryptocurrency swap aggregator
- ICYMI: South China Morning Post unveils ARTIFACTs by SCMP, collectible NFTs from the SCMP’s 118 years of archives
The Block Research: 2022 Digital Asset Outlook (pdf
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